International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Olga Grinchenko
Nottingham University, Nottingham, United Kingdom; 
[e-mail]
Literary Patterns in the Slavonic Anthologies Excerpting 
the 
Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem
Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem 
is a Byzantine 
erotapokritic
text consisting of 137 questions 
and answers on a wide range of topics related to Christianity. As Ilse De Vos has shown in her 
recent studies, the Greek text has come down to us in 250 witnesses dating from the 10
th
to the 
19
th
century and despite its obvious popularity remained relatively unvaried. Furthermore, the text 
has been widely excerpted and translated into a number of languages, including Church Slavonic. 
The Slavonic tradition encompasses 123 witnesses dating from the 11
th
to the 19
th
century. In my 
presentation I will examine the contents of a representative selection of the Slavonic Anthologies 
excerpting the 
Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem
in order to show how the Byzantine literary models 
have been adapted by the Slavonic tradition, especially in the group of heterogeneous witnesses 
that do not follow the Greek word order. In addition, I will also look at the general contents of 
the Slavonic Anthologies containing the 
Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem
in comparison with the 
contents of the Greek Anthologies to detect parallels between the two traditions in transmitting the 
text through centuries.
Yavor Miltenov
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Sofia, Bulgaria; 
[e-mail]
The Making of the 
Chrysorrhoas
Collection
Zlatostruy (i.e. Chrysorrhoas) is the name of an Old Slavonic collection of Chrysostomian 
homilies, which was compiled in the first quarter of the 10
th
c. by the commission of the Bulgarian 
King Symeon (893-927).
The paper aims at a reconstruction of the history of the initial Symeonic Corpus 
Chrysostomicum. Author presents the results of a survey on its Byzantine sources and the way they 
were processed, as well as an analysis of the extant evidence for its influence on Slavic homiletic 
collections, miscellanies and florilegia.

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